Shadowing Practice: This Is All About You With Dr Shauna Watts - Learn English Speaking with Video

I'm never glad that the things that have happened have happened and that, of course, I wish that my children all had great health

and I wish that I hadn't had the health experiences that I've had.

I can't help but thinking that it's helped me and my husband both be better doctors,

because I think whenever you are that person in the bed or that person in the waiting room,

nervously wondering what the doctor is going to be like and are they going to take you seriously?

And I really think that that experience really expanded my knowledge.

And it also helped me understand what it's like to have someone in your house be quite unwell

and the impact that that has on the whole family.

So who are you and why are you here?

My name is Shauna Watt and I'm a family doctor who lives in Australia, originally from Hollywood in Northern Ireland.

I'm a 40-something mum of four children.

I own two businesses.

I've been a university teacher, a family doctor, and now I am a bit of an entrepreneur,

I suppose, and I enjoy presenting and speaking on various women's health topics.

Um, and we're here because I decided that I've got something to say

and my job has always put me in a privileged position.

I've been able to attend amazing conferences and I'm here.

Amazing people speak.

You're at the top of their field and I'm so lucky

because every day I get to pick up the phone to various specialists

and allied health people that I work with and to get support for my patients and to get advice.

And I decided that I would like to bring some of those people in to meet you all

so that you can listen in on our conversations

and hopefully take a few nuggets that might help you in your life or your children or grandchildren or partner.

And so that's really the thought behind the podcast.

Can you tell us about your childhood and where you grew up?

Yes, so I was born and raised in a small town just outside Belfast in Northern Ireland.

And I have an older sister and lived with my mum and dad.

Lived a very happy, loving household.

Unfortunately, my dad did pass away, but my mum is still alive and well.

And everyone who knows me knows that I'm with my mum.

and all my patients always ask me when she's coming next to visit

so she comes out quite a lot to visit

and I just love her so that's awesome

and I grew up surrounded with a big extended family

so I'm typically Irish perhaps my mum is one of 12

and my dad is one of eight so there is a lot of cousins

and the lovely thing is that all those cousins were in our lives

and all the aunties and uncles

so you kind of grew up with cousins who were your friends

and various cousins have come and met us

and we've met them in America they've come to Australia

so that's really awesome

but yeah really happy childhood went to school the whole way

through in the same town called Hollywood where all the stars are from.

No, so all joking aside, it is Hollywood.

And we were there before Hollywood in America, but our one is only spelt with one L.

But it is pronounced Hollywood and some pretty famous people are from there like Van Morrison

and Rory McIlroy the golfer and Jamie Dornan.

So, you know, we're like a town of celebrities.

No, it's an awesome place and I love going back there.

and after school I went to university in Belfast

so I literally was able to take the train and

when I wasn't at university studying to be a doctor I was working in the local supermarket

and was the lottery girl and did

that the whole way until like literally about three weeks before I was a doctor

and I'm still in contact with lots of people that I worked there with as well.

So yeah, pretty happy childhood.

When did you realize that you wanted to become a doctor?

So my dad, who I did mention, he passed away over 20 years ago, but he always tells a funny story or always told a funny story

that he always knew I was going to be a nurse or a doctor because I always fussed and worried about him.

And he was ill for a very, very long time

and he used to walk me to school each day

and apparently when I was five or six or seven

or something I stopped um dead one day on the pavement

and I refused to walk and he was like what are you doing

and I apparently cried and said that his legs were too sore

and that he wasn't allowed to walk me to school anymore

because I was too worried that something was going to happen to him

so he um would say that it was from

that point um realistically i definitely went through a time

when i was probably 12 or 13 where i was going to be a vet

and and i absolutely love animals

and anyone who follows me will often see pictures of me with my great dane

and my other dogs so i love animals

but um ultimately um i think sometime in my teens i decided

that i was going to be a doctor

and to be honest it was just head down bum up

and I just studied like mad to get into university

and at 18 I went off to university

and started studying to be a doctor

and at the time I was 23 years old I was on the wards as a doctor in the hospital.

And what about your your own family husband kids?

Yes so I met my husband Peter at medical school

so we didn't know each other right from the first few days of medical school

but we didn't start dating i think for another maybe three

or four years and we've been together ever since and and we have four children together he range from

22 to 12 and so we've got two boys and two girls

and i'm pretty obsessed with my kids

that up there with my obsession with my mother and and

and they're all very individual and and really awesome

and i do look back and think 10 years ago

when i was standing at dublin airport with what seemed like 27 suitcases

and i had a two-year-old and a four-year-old and a 10-year-old

and a 12-year-old i look back and think god i was

so crazy what was i thinking because we came to australia

and we didn't know anyone like we literally did not know anyone

and we didn't know anyone on the central coast

but here we are 10 years later we've got lots of friends our kids love it

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and i feel like we're so integrated so yeah it's been good

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and when you first started your journey as a doctor

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and practicing what kind of things were you doing

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so obviously all doctors start off as hospital doctors or junior doctors

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and I had a very firm idea of what I wanted to be

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and I was obsessed with being a pediatric surgeon

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so a children's surgeon

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that was all I was going to be no one was

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going to be able to talk me out of it

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and lots of people did try and talk me out of it

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but I was pretty determined and look I did really very well at medical school

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and so I was very lucky that I actually got a position on the surgical training program, which is pretty difficult.

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And although I absolutely loved it and I thrived and I loved being in theater and the operating and just the buzz, like it's definitely quite exciting,

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maybe just as a junior doctor, but I loved it.

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But what I realized quite quickly was that I actually loved talking to patients more.

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I always wondered what happened next and I realized very quickly

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that I loved patients stories and I love to be part of their stories

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so one of my jobs was in the breast cancer unit

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and I just remember I always used to wonder how the patients got on like did

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that lady did she get to go to her son's wedding

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or you know did that person manage to see their son graduate

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and I always wondered what happened next

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and the funny thing is I always say

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that general practice probably chose me a lot longer before I had made

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that decision at medical school I actually won a medal

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and prize for general practice and that was quite a nice thing to win

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and I was obviously really proud and really happy

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but I remember being presented with the award

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and the professor of general practice trying to talk me into being a general practitioner

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and I was quite determined no no I'm not going to be a GP I'm going to be a surgeon

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and I look back now and think that I'm so glad

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that I did make that change

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because I love being a doctor I love being a GP I'm really lucky

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that I'm one of those people I look forward to every day it's such a it's such a hard job

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and And I think people don't maybe appreciate actually how much you have to know about

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so many subjects and so many topics and so many medications,

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but it's actually such a privilege and it's all the interconnections because you know,

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often know a whole family and the in-laws and you know their story.

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And I definitely have quite a good memory.

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So people always go, I can't believe you remember that.

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it's not often not because I've written it on

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but I'll kind of remember that really quirky comment

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that someone's told me about and I'll remember

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so yeah that's kind of was my journey to general practice

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I also throughout my career I've always been involved really in teaching

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and I taught at the university in Belfast for quite a long time

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and then I've also taught students in the GP clinic

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and then in later most recent years I've been teaching at the University of Sydney as well

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and I absolutely love that it's such a buzz the students are

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so enthusiastic and the things

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that I love teaching are those softer skills like you know communication

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but in a really soft way and looking behind what the patient is really saying

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and I think that the students seem to enjoy my lessons

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so recently had to give that up because i just don't have enough time

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but it's definitely something that i've loved and i um really miss

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and i kind of hope in this podcast that it's something

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that will be able to um skills that will be transferable

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because the reality is i just want and to be able to help

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so many people and help them understand you know their health journey

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and of the topics that you teach or experience in your sort of day-to-day are there any that you have

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sort of a deeper interest in or of real focus areas for you?

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Definitely.

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I think as a mum of four, there's no doubt that I'm definitely still really interested in children.

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I love having children and teenagers in my clinic with me.

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I feel like I'm good at building rapport with children,

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but I suppose really I have gravitated a lot towards women's health and women's mental health.

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So I do spend a lot of time doing quite long consultations for people with complex mental health disorders.

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And I absolutely love the relationships that I've developed with local psychologists and psychiatrists.

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And, you know, I have various, you know, eating disorder teams and things like that who work really closely with me.

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So I suppose those are my real interests.

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And then I think stemming from my own personal experiences, I also have a real interest in perimenopause and menopause.

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As someone who had an early menopause myself and it potentially wasn't managed the best.

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I think I have a lot of empathy for people who are going through that.

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And I think, you know, I've tried to really educate myself because the reality is whether we like it or not, there's not a lot of education done at medical school.

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And in fact, in a lot of training on menopause and perimenopause.

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And that's obviously a subject that's been getting increasing airtime because, you know, I think lots of women have just got to the point where they've kind of had enough

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and they want someone to pay attention.

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so that was um and still is a very big interest

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and I suppose leading on from that and I have my own clinics

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and now one in the central coast and one in Newcastle

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and and that really evolved for many reasons

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and one um I have to admit I was always someone who thought

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that I would never have anti-wrinkle injections and

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so I kind of do have a chuckle to myself occasionally

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and when I realize not only do I have them

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but I give them and but I came at this

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because I wanted it to be different I felt like there the medicine had been taken out of aesthetics

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and I felt that the medicine needed to be put back in I felt

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that the doctor needed to be put back into those

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consultations

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and I wanted everything to be slowed down I felt like

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sometimes it's all become a bit of a rush something

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that you maybe you know you're in this shopping center

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and you nip in have this treatment

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and I think somewhere along the way the the consequences

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and the potential side effects have maybe got a little bit diluted

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and perhaps people don't quite understand until something goes wrong

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and it was on the back of me as a gp

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kind of dealing with some patients who had difficult consequences of a few treatments

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that i hadn't done and in fact i didn't really know anything about at

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that point that made me do a bit of a deep dive to understand what those patients had had

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and possibly what had gone wrong and it made me decide

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that i wanted to see if i could do do it differently.

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And so out of that was born you.

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And so my clinics are called you by Dr. Shauna Watts.

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And, and that name really was chosen for a few reasons.

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You, because I want my patients to know that they'll walk in looking like themselves.

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So you'll be you when you walk in and you'll be you when you walk out.

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So I think the thing that's interesting in cosmetic medicine is there are some really incredible technologies

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and some really amazing research

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but we've all seen this sort of skewed far end where

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the person who's potentially had a lot of work done

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and we've seen celebrities where it's all gone a bit over the top

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and I wanted to show that you actually can use some of these really interesting

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and great innovations but you can use them in a very subtle and you can use them to improve someone's confidence,

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but they can walk in looking like themselves and they can walk out looking like themselves.

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And I think the reason that we ended up wanting to have my name

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and the name was I wanted to say that I'm going to take responsibility.

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So it wasn't that I was sort of a nameless organization that I was going to literally sign my name below it.

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And that does have its own, I suppose, pressure.

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But that's good because that means that I'm always striving to make sure that we always try our best.

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And, you know, we're not perfect.

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And we, I'm sure at times, you know, people will potentially feel like we haven't always been 100%.

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But, you know, I'm always striving to make sure that our customer care is amazing, that our aftercare is amazing and

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and in fact you know even there was a slip of the tongue

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because they're not customers they're they're patients and we refer to them as patients

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and at my clinic we just constantly check in the doctor's always checking in

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so that you don't just go off

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and disappear into the ether you know there's always a doctor

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at the very minimum every three months the doctor is bringing you back in to see how are you going

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and the nice thing about our clinic as well is

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that I really focused our clinics on

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that group of women who I thought had

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that risk of starting to become a little bit invisible women

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who at a certain age were beginning to lose a bit of confidence

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and who unfortunately in society often can become a bit ignored

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and and although we know I attract women of all ages I'm still really proud that for a long time,

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our clinic was absolutely focused on that age group of sort of people between 40 and 70.

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And I was really happy to be working with that group of women.

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And what's been really lovely is just watching women who, you know, I think all of us are moving through years of our lives

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and I know I'm not the same person as I was

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when I was 20 or when I was 30

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or in fact even the same person

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that I was six months ago like we're always evolving

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and growing and and you know I know we talk about post-traumatic stress

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but I also think that there's another thing called post-traumatic growth

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and I think that we all can move forward together so I think it's a very positive clinic

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in a very positive environment.

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And that has sort of ended up, you know, what we do there has actually ended up expanding.

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So we've got very incorporating a lot of lifestyle medicine, helping people with their weight, helping people with perimenopause, menopausal symptoms.

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So yeah, the whole thing's always evolving and growing, which is fun.

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It's fun every day going to work.

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Amazing.

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And what about on sort of the other side of things, your experience as not just a doctor but being a patient yourself

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so I think that's really interesting and although I'm never glad

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that the things that have happened have happened and

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that of course I wish that my children all had great health

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and I wish that I hadn't had the health experiences

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that I've had I can't help but thinking that it's helped me

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and my husband both be better doctors because I think whenever you are

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that person in the bed or

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that person in the waiting room nervously wondering what the doctor is going to be like

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and are they going to take you seriously it really helps you see how intimidating it is

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and how frustrating it can be

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and even though we were doctors at times you know we have felt you know dismissed

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or not taken seriously so I think

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the interesting part for us has been

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that of our four children um the first two were really very healthy um

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and we didn't really have any significant health problems

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but then our third child my daughter had very significant health problems

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and I actually had to take quite a significant time out

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of work to um spend a lot of time in hospital with her

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and at that point we lived still in Northern Ireland, but we frequently had to fly to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, where she was also a patient.

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And I think that probably also honed my researching skills because my daughter's got quite a rare condition.

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So I would be sitting late at night researching, reading, finding journals, trying to find experts in Germany, in the USA.

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And I really think that that experience really expanded my knowledge and it also helped me understand what it's like to have

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someone in your house be quite unwell and the impact that that has on the whole family

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and we also have a child who's neurodivergent

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and that's been a bit of a learning curve for us as well i think

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if i'm being honest i probably used to pat myself on

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the back uh probably a bit too much um about you know i was such a great parent

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and my first two children were so easy and

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and i think you know i got a bit of a rude awakening

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and realized that that was probably more to do with their personalities rather than my

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and peter's magnificent parenting and and but what has been lovely is

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that i definitely am a believer on my good days

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that um these children are sent to teach us something and

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and have taught me a lot more patience

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and um how to you know work around situations and not be

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so shitey and things so i think that's really helped me

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and both as a person and as a doctor

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and then the other thing

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that we went through whenever i was in my early 30s um actually a few years

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so my dad had had been um had passed away probably about six

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or seven years by this time and his sister my dad's sister became very unwell

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and ultimately died from breast and ovarian cancer

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and i was very close to her i'd grown up with her my whole life

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and in fact her end of life care she had me front

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and center of it she didn't seem to trust any other doctors

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and then me so that was i was very close to

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that situation and at the same time two of my cousins on

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that same side of the family also had breast cancer

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and they were very young and ultimately we realized after my aunt had passed away that she carried

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the BRCA1 gene which nowadays a lot of people have heard of

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and because my dad had passed away they went straight to testing myself

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and my sister and whereas they they tested all my my dad's siblings

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and I have to say I probably went into that really naively

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and that was one of the situations where probably being a doctor wasn't super helpful

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and because I definitely didn't really think it through

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and think through what the potential implications of knowing would be

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I was quite blase about having the blood test I was a hundred percent sure it was going to be fine.

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And then it was a bit of a shock when it wasn't.

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And the way I got the news, which was actually entirely my fault, I was at work and ended up getting them.

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And I actually don't remember, I had to drive home that night for about one hour

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and I actually don't even remember that journey home because I think, you know, there's no doubt

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that lots of people will see having a gene is a sort of oh it's a positive thing

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that you know but bear in mind I had literally just watched my auntie die

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and leave her children and I also was watching two of my cousins be extremely unwell

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so it was pretty that was very very hard it was a really difficult time

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I found it very scary for a long time

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and I think it definitely gives you a different perspective on life

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and because I feel like you know you've got this thing

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and you have to make a decision like what can you do to reduce your risk

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and I had certainly one plan in my mind of what was going to happen

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and then I had my third daughter or my third child

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and when she was so unwell all my plans went out the window

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because of course as a mum you just focus on your child

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and the reality is that I was just having regular screening tests

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and then got a phone call to say actually we need to do this surgery

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so that was pretty confronting um so I think I was 32 or 33 and I had a double mastectomy

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or a bilateral mastectomy and then I decided

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that I wanted to have another baby

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so we um then had our fourth child and

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because of the gene that I have it can give you breast cancer ovarian cancer

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but pancreatic and also the gene that I have also seems to give you a type of lung cancer as well

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so I mean there's only so many organs from your body

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that you can decide you're going to do something about

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and there's lots of different mutations like some people don't have all of those risks

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but those are the ones that run in our family

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so basically at my cesarean section for Quinn I went from being pregnant to menopausal in 30 minutes

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so we went and we made the decision that we had to remove my ovaries.

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And I suppose if we fast forward now, so that's 12 years ago,

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that's probably one of the reasons why I have a lot of empathy for women who are perimenopausal.

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At that time, I was in my early 30s.

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Absolutely none of my friends could really understand.

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I couldn't really understand many of the symptoms, to be honest.

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It really wasn't something that was

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hugely talked about and at that time hormone replacement therapy

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or HRT had massively gone out of favor

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and it was considered too risky for people who had either breast cancer

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or a high risk of breast cancer to be on HRT

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so it was definitely quite a challenging time

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and I have a look back now and think god I survived

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that but I think you know I had four kids

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and it was busy and one was sick and you know

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so I used to just put all the symptoms down to to

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that but I think again all of those things I'm a great believer

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if it doesn't kill you it'll make you stronger kind of thing

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so I do think that it's actually helped me walk in the shoes of

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so many women and not only women who are in their 40s

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and 50s but also that significant cohort of women who have a very early menopause

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and that might be because it's a natural thing for them

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but it is also because they've had surgery or chemotherapy

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or they've had to have their ovaries removed for another reason

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so I think that has also really impacted the things that I'm really interested in

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and had an interesting conversation with my husband this morning

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and he told me that he believes

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that since I've known I have a BRCA1 that somehow subconsciously I've decided to pack

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as much in as possible so I'm always doing something

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and I'm definitely one of those people who finds it hard to say no to anything

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so I'm I'm the kind of person who packs quite a lot into one day.

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And all about you where did that name come from?

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Well as we talked about before my other clinic is called you

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so I like to always put the person at the center of everything

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and really this podcast is going to be all about you we're going to be bringing um international

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australian and local experts in their fields and authors researchers

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and we're gonna we're gonna just suck all the information out of them get all the facts

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so that we know what we can take into our life

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because there's so many things that at the minute are in fashion

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and are they fact or are they a myth are they worth doing are they actually something

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that has got no evidence so what you can expect is

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that we're going to do a deep dive

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and hopefully by the end of each episode you'll walk away with at least one

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or two nuggets that you can put in your pocket

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and take forward with you

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and what sort of topics will we be hoping to hear from you oh we're gonna like

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so it because It's all about you and is literally everything that you could possibly embark upon.

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We're going to be talking to various researchers from Australia who are at the forefront of research in women's mental health.

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We are going to be talking to a bariatric surgeon about weight loss.

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We're going to be talking to experts about those weight loss medications that are the do's and don'ts.

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We're going to be talking to legal experts, relationship experts, addiction experts.

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We're even going to be talking to people about phone addiction, gaming addiction that may be an issue for you or your child.

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And you and I are going to just take a deep dive together.

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You get to listen in in the conversation.

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And I hopefully get to ask all the questions that you would want to ask if you were in my seat.

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So if you had the chance and you could tell your 20-year-old self one thing, what would you say?

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Gosh, one thing?

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I have many things I'd like to say.

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I think it would probably be to just be,

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not overthink anything and not to worry too much about what other people think

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because you know with time you will evolve and grow and you know you'll find your tribe,

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you'll find the people who will gravitate towards you and like you for you

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And even though I think that we all change, there's that core personality of who you are, it's probably constant.

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But as you mature, you probably become a little bit more relaxed

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and a little bit more forgiving of other people because you realize that you're not quite perfect yourself.

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So I think my advice to my 20 year old self would be stop overthinking it.

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Stop worrying about what everyone else thinks of you just be who you are

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and just enjoy the ride because it goes really quickly

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so shauna what's next we have got some amazing guests lined up and i'm

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so excited to bring our next episodes to you we're going

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to be dropping an episode every monday morning to set you up for your week

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and you're going to be able to find the podcasts at

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all the usual places apple Spotify etc you'll be able to watch the video

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if you want to watch us actually converse in person and

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that will be on YouTube

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and you can follow us on Instagram at all about you by Dr Shauna Watts as well

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so I'm super excited and I can't wait to see you all next week

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “This Is All About You With Dr Shauna Watts”. This video has 416 sentences and 5228 words to shadow. The speech runs for 31:51. The speaker talks at a natural 164 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
unwell adjective	/ʌnˈwɛl/	Not in good health; not feeling well; somewhat ill
menopause noun	/ˈmɛnəpɔːz/	The period in a woman's life when menstruation becomes irregular and less frequent before eventually stopping altogether, usually accompanied by a range of…
evolve verb	/ɪˈvɑlv/	To move (something) in regular procession through a system.
surgeon noun	/ˈsɝd͡ʒən/	One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.
podcast noun	/ˈpɑdˌkæst/	A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on…
perimenopause noun		The physiological stage that women approaching menopause go through when, due to hormonal changes, they progress from their usual pattern of menstruation…
symptom noun	/ˈsɪm(p)təm/	A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash; strictly, a…
dive verb	/daɪv/	To swim under water.
addiction noun	/əˈdɪkˌʃən/	A state that is characterized by compulsive drug use or compulsive engagement in rewarding behavior, despite negative consequences.
auntie noun	/ˈæn.ti/	Term of familiarity or respect for a middle-aged or elderly woman.
gravitate verb	/ˈɡɹævɪteɪt/	To move under the force of gravity.
mastectomy noun	/ˌmæsˈtɛktəmi/	The surgical procedure to remove all or part of a breast and sometimes nearby tissues.
menopausal adjective		Of, or pertaining to the menopause.
nervously adverb		In a nervous manner; feeling or displaying nervousness.
nuggets		Synonym of rats (“expressing annoyance”).

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
look back verb		To think of (past events) in retrospect (in hindsight).
pass away verb		To die.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
grow up verb		To mature and become an adult.
walk out verb		To stage a walkout or strike.
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
go back verb		To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Can you tell us about your childhood and where you grew up?
When did you realize that you wanted to become a doctor?
I have many things I'd like to say.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to walk · used to wonder · used to pat
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have happened · I've been · has always put
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	was born · is pronounced · wasn't allowed
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	everyone who knows · anyone who follows · program, which is

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 129 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: empathy /ˈɛmpəθi/, chemotherapy /ˌkiːməʊˈθɛɹəpi/, aesthetics /ɛsˈθɛt.ɪks/, thrive /θɹajv/, enthusiastic /ɪnˌθjuːzɪˈæstɪk/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: addiction /əˈdɪkˌʃən/, consultation /ˌkɑnsəlˈteɪʃən/, medication /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, interconnection /ˌɪn.tɚ.kəˈnɛk.ʃən/, implication /ˌɪmpləˈkeɪʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: mastectomy /ˌmæsˈtɛktəmi/, ovarian /oʊˈvɛɹi.ən/, consultation /ˌkɑnsəlˈteɪʃən/, medication /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, bariatric /ˌbæɹiˈætɹɪk/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like unwell, menopause, evolve.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

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